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I am a self-taught food enthusiast, holistic medicine advocate, and an nutritionist in training based in New York.
The Cooking Optional blog is dedicated to healing foods and alternative medicine to help achieve optimal health.
After being diagnosed with endometriosis and undergoing a tedious surgery and recovery, I set out on a mission to find natural ways of healing myself. Through mostly raw food and yoga lifestyle, I am controlling my condition and educating others on how they can improve their health. I am continually educating myself and hope to achieve my certification for holistic nutrition soon.
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Oct 8, 2009

Yesterday I attended Pretty City shopping event. The first booth on my way in was Bright Pink. If you're not familiar with them, Bright Pink is a non-profit organization focused on prevention and early detection of breast cancer and ovarian cancer in young women with high-risk. But as I talked to the very nice girl, I regret that I don't remember her name, I realized that it's much more than that. Bright Pink is a support system and a community of beautiful young females who happen to be in high risk for breast or ovarian cancer. It empowers women to be proactive and be aware of their bodies. It educates them about the risk and informs them how to get help and screening.

Being at very high-risk of breast cancer myself, this organization really caught my interest. Many young women don't get advised to get screening at young age, many start in their late 30's or 40's. However, my mother was 40 when she got hers, and my sister was even younger at 35. I've already had a benign tumor removed and two biopsies. I make it a priority to get checked every 6 months.

Don't wait until it is too late. Women have a "..1 in 8 lifetime risk of developing breast cancer".
If cancer seems to run in your family, you might have the mutated gene, so be sure to request a genetic test from your doctor to know your risk.

Lastly, take care of your health with nutritious diet and exercise daily. You can lower your risk for cancer by eating right and being active. Get plenty of green veggies and fruits. Drink plenty of water. And always make time to relax and de-stress, as well as 8 hours of sleep.

1 comments:

Thanks for this post. I hadn't heard of Bright Pink before. I'll check out the site for sure. And as this is NBCAM, thought I’d pass along an easy way to help raise awareness: check out these 30 sec breast cancer related videos -- http://www.ahamoment.com/pg/voting?moment=pmbbmea -- and click to vote for one or all. The top vote getters in the contest will be aha moment TV commercials next year. After all, more media exposure for the cause would be a very good thing.